24/27 Stummick ain't ez big ez his appetite, an' he hez to cry about it. I don't think your Alexander wuz such a big man, after all." "He was not, from one point of view, Sol, but he was certainly a general. One day he got raging drunk, which made him hot all over, and he jumped into an icy river to cool off. That gave him a fever, and he died right away. He was only thirty-two." Shif'less Sol sniffed in disgust. |